about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

Resources for Invention (1962), are so relevant in today’s knowledge-driven economic paradigm. Focusing on the papers …’ application to current global policy debates on information/knowledge and intellectual property, they argue that while the context … has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve …